Ludwig van Beethoven
1770-1827
"It was impossible for me to leave the world before I had
composed
all that I felt needed to produce" -- Beethoven
Student
Biography of Ludwig
Van Beethoven
by: Cherie M. -- Wheeling Park High
School -- Dan Wilhelm, Teacher
Ludwig Van Beethoven was a
great composer, who spent many of his childhood years raising his younger
siblings. His mother died of an
illness and his father became depressed and could no longer take care of them.
Beethoven is well know for his many works, especially Ode to Joy, which
he wrote when he was deaf.
The
last good influence on Beethoven’s father, Beethoven’s mother, was removed
when she died. Beethoven’s father
began drinking. The situation got
so bad that Beethoven had to go to his father’s employer to demand and receive
half of his father’s salary so that he could provide for his two younger
brother and one-year old sister. In 1972 his father died.
Ludwig had to provide for his family for four years.
In 1792, a composer named Joseph Haydn passes through Bonn on his way to
Vienna. Haydn was impressed by
Beethoven’s work but felt his talents needed to be controlled before they
could be developed. Beethoven left
Bonn and moved to Vienna to study composition with Haydn. Haydn found that
Beethoven was advancing along the same path that he did as a youth.
Beethoven realized that Haydn was not the teacher he was looking for he
moved. He made enemies with many pianists, but his on skill is what
got him recognition during his twenties. His
first concert was on April 2, 1800.
Beethoven
went through a grieving period over his mother.
There was also a point where he believed he became infected because of
the shortness of breath that he was having.
We will never know whether Beethoven had been infected during his mothers
illness. A musician, and good
friend of Beethoven, Franz Anton Ries, stood by Beethoven and his family. Beethoven stopped composing for almost two years because of
everything he was going through. After
all of his family matters settled down, Beethoven began composing.
He also had his friend, Waldstein, present a Ritterballett, at a carnival
as his own. In Beethoven’s duties
as a court musician he wrote a funeral cantanta for the death of Emperor Joseph
2, but it was not finished in time.
Beethoven
was the writer of many types of works. Beethoven
observed opera other than Fidelio, but
ended up only writing that one. Fidelio was first staged in 1805 and done in revision in 1814.
He also wrote for dramatic productions.
Beethoven did choral and vocal music.
One of his most impressive and well known works was the Missa
Solennis. He also wrote the Mount of Olives, but it isn’t as well
know. In his years he completed
nine symphonies. His symphonies
influenced the future of music by the expansion of the traditional classic form.
Beethoven wrote many overtures. He
wrote four of them just for his only opera, Fidelio.
Beethoven completed many types of concertos.
A few of them are: a violin concerto, five piano concertos, and a triple concerto for violin, cello, and the piano.
The fifth concerto is probably his most impressive.
Also, he wrote ten sonatas for the violin and piano, they have a wide
range of dynamic contrast, which makes full use of the piano.
We
will remember Beethoven for his great writing, but it was more than his writing
that we should remember him for. I
have learned that he was not only a great writer but also a caretaker of his
siblings, and a good friend to all those around him.
Bibliography
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Ascent”, lucare.com, 8 Feb, 2001: 1-2
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Later Bonn Years”, geocities.com, 8 Feb, 2001: 1-3
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Ludwig Van”, hnh.com, 8 Feb, 2001: 1-5
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For my brothers Carl and Johann
Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent,
stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the
secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. From childhood on, me heart
and soul have been full of the tender feeling of goodwill, and I was ever
inclined to accomplish great things. But, think that for six years now I have
been hopelessly afflicted, made worse by senseless physicians, from year to year
deceived with hopes of improvement, finally compelled to face the prospect of a
lasting malady (whose cure will take years or, perhaps, be impossible). Though
born with a fiery, active temperament, even susceptible to the diversions of
society, I was soon compelled to withdraw myself, to live life alone. If at
times I tried to forget all this, oh how harshly I was I flung back by the
doubly sad experience of my bad hearing. Yet it was impossible for me to say to
people, "Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf." Ah, how could I possibly
admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than
others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection
such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.--Oh I cannot do it;
therefore forgive me when you see me draw back when I would have gladly mingled
with you. My misfortune is doubly painful to me because I am bound to be
misunderstood; for me there can be no relaxation with my fellow men, no refined
conversations, no mutual exchange of ideas. I must live almost alone, like one
who has been banished; I can mix with society only as much as true necessity
demands. If I approach near to people a hot terror seizes upon me, and I fear
being exposed to the danger that my condition might be noticed. Thus it has been
during the last six months which I have spent in the country. By ordering me to
spare my hearing as much as possible, my intelligent doctor almost fell in with
my own present frame of mind, though sometimes I ran counter to it by yielding
to my desire for companionship. But what a humiliation for me when someone
standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or
someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing,
or someone heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents
drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended me life
-- it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed to me impossible to leave
the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. So I endured
this wretched existence -- truly wretched for so susceptible a body, which can
be thrown by a sudden change from the best condition to the very worst. --
Patience, they say, is what I must now choose for my guide, and I have done so
-- I hope my determination will remain firm to endure until it pleases the
inexorable Parcae to break the thread. Perhaps I shall get better, perhaps not;
I am ready. -- Forced to become a philosopher already in my twenty-eighth year,
-- oh it is not easy, and for the artist much more difficult than for anyone
else. -- Divine One, thou sees my inmost soul thou knows that therein dwells the
love of mankind and the desire to do good. -- Oh fellow men, when at some point
you read this, consider then that you have done me an injustice; someone who has
had misfortune man console himself to find a similar case to his, who despite
all the limitations of Nature nevertheless did everything within his powers to
become accepted among worthy artists and men. -- You, my brothers Carl and [Johann],
as soon as I am dead, if Dr. Schmidt is still alive, ask him in my name to
describe my malady, and attach this written documentation to his account of my
illness so that so far as it possible at least the world may become reconciled
to me after my death. -- At the same time, I declare you two to be the heirs to
my small fortune (if so it can be called); divide it fairly; bear with and help
each other. What injury you have done me you know was long ago forgiven. To you,
brother Carl, I give special thanks for the attachment you have shown me of
late. It is my wish that you may have a better and freer life than I have had.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I
speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery. Thanks to it
and to my art, I did not end my life by suicide -- Farewell and love each other
-- I thank all my friends, particularly Prince Lichnowsky and Professor Schmidt
-- I would like the instruments from Prince L. to be preserved by one of you,
but not to be the cause of strife between you, and as soon as they can serve you
a better purpose, then sell them. How happy I shall be if can still be helpful
to you in my grave -- so be it. -- With joy I hasten to meet death. -- If it
comes before I have had the chance to develop all my artistic capacities, it
will still be coming too soon despite my harsh fate, and I should probably wish
it later -- yet even so I should be happy, for would it not free me from a state
of endless suffering? -- Come when thou wilt, I shall meet thee bravely. --
Farewell and do not wholly forget me when I am dead; I deserve this from you,
for during my lifetime I was thinking of you often and of ways to make you happy
-- please be so -- Ludwig
van Beethoven, Heiglnstadt, October 6th, 1802
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